His new body of work, History Painting, takes a similar technical approach, although rather than interpret a specific scene, Li ventures into the abstract. Wide, impasto layers of oil paint cloak the ...

A lost oil painting by the Italian master Canaletto will go up for auction for £150,000 after being discovered hanging in the drawing room of an English home. The 18ins by 12ins oil on canvas work ...

The region's history of oil exploration has inspired artists from the Middle East and beyond, including those who chose it as their medium Iranian artist Amin Roshan's family worked in the oil ...